From the Wilkes-Barre Record, April 22, 1939

Charles Murray Turpin (March 4, 1878 – June 4, 1946) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.[1][2]

Biography

Turpin was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania on March 4, 1878, and attended the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston.[3][4]

He served as a corporal in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War in Company F of the Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard from 1896 to 1901, rising to the rank of captain.[5]

He was employed as a carpenter, grocery clerk, and a steamboat captain before graduating from the dental department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1904. After graduation, he commenced the practice of dentistry in Kingston in 1905.[6]

He served as a member of the board of education from 1916 to 1922, burgess of Kingston from 1922 to 1926, and prothonotary of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania from 1926 to 1929.[7]

Turpin was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John J. Casey. He was reelected to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936.[8][9]

He was appointed assistant chief clerk of the Luzerne County Assessor's Office in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.[10]

Death and interment

Turpin died in Kingston and is buried in Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort, Pennsylvania.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray" (T000433), in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, retrieved online February 10, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray." Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Political Graveyard, May 10, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  4. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," The Political Graveyard.
  5. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  6. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  7. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  8. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  9. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," The Political Graveyard.
  10. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  11. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  12. ↑ "Turpin, Charles Murray," The Political Graveyard.
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